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Moishe Alexander Donates to Ohalei Yosef Yitzchak
Moishe Alexander donated $360.00 CDN to Ohalei Yosef Yitzchak in 2008.
About Ohalei Tzadikim:
Throughout the Ukraine, Poland, Moldova, Turkey, Greece, Morocco and Bulgaria are scattered hundreds of kivrei tzadikim – neglected, desecrated, and dishonored for decades. Ohelim have been destroyed, gravestones desecrated and entire cemeteries turned into pastures for cattle.
From the time that the splendor of European Jewry was destroyed and that Communist darkness descended over Eastern Europe, the cemeteries in the towns and villages, the kivrei tzadikim scattered there – and the communal graves found there – have been completely neglected.
Slowly, slowly the fences have disappeared, trees have grown wild, monuments have been broken – accidentally and on purpose by neighbors – and cemeteries have been entirely plowed over. The ohelim of tzaddikim from past generations and their gravestones have been smashed and destroyed. Often there has not even remained a sign that here, in this place, is buried one of the Gedolim of the generations or that in this place there was once a cemetery.
Instead of preserving the memory and the dignity of the deceased, the righteous of previous generations who were murdered in wild riots and unspeakable calamities, there have emerged high-rise buildings, parking lots and pastures. The clock is ticking, and most of the Jewish cemeteries in Eastern Europe have been desecrated.
There is now a hand erecting a fence around a cemetery, building another ohel over the gravesite of a tzadik, purchasing another piece of land, installing lighting, improving pathways, cutting down wild trees, maintaining and most importantly rescuing the gravesites of the great and glorious of our nation, whose resting places have been disgraced.
That hand is Agudas Ohalei Tzadikim.
Moishe Alexander Donates to Torah Umesorah
Moishe Alexander donated $72.00 CDN to Torah Umesorah in 2008.
About Torah Umesorah:
Torah Umesorah - National Society for Hebrew Day Schools (or Torah Umesorah תורה ומסורה) is an Orthodox Jewish organization that fosters and promotes Torah-based Jewish religious education in North America by supporting and developing a loosely affiliated network of 760 independent private Jewish day schools catering to more than 250,000 children, yeshivas and kollelim in every city with a significant population of Jews. The previous executive vice-president of Torah Umesorah was Rabbi Joshua Fishman, a disciple of Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner (1906-1980). Rabbi Fishman retired in June 2007, and the current Menahel is Rabbi Dovid Nojowitz, who returned to the U.S., after serving as Rosh Kollel in Melbourne, Australia for a quarter century.
The organization was established in New York City in 1944 at a time when the United States was at war with the Axis Powers and Europe’s Jews were facing the genocide of the Holocaust by the Nazis. Yet it was precisely at that time that the call went out, challenging the prevailing mood of the times, to establish a totally new network of Jewish day schools across North America. Torah Umesorah was founded after Lithuanian Yeshiva deans witnessed the success of the Chabad-Lubavitch School system started by its education arm, Merkos L’inyonie Chinuch (Central Organization for Jewish Education) established 1941. Merkos established a network of Jewish schools starting in the early forties, was founded by Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneerson, the Lubavitcher Rebbe and directed by his son in law and successor Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson.
The originator and leading personality of this new idea was the Hungarian-born Rabbi Shraga Feivel Mendlowitz (who insisted in being addressed as “Mr. Mendlowitz”) who was then serving as the head of the Yeshiva Torah Vodaas in Brooklyn. He was supported, encouraged and guided by a group of colleagues (mostly leading Eastern European-born and educated rosh yeshivas ["deans"]), such as Rabbi Aharon Kotler (1890-1962) the rosh yeshiva of the Lakewood yeshiva in New Jersey, and others.